Year: 2009

Couldn’t miss the chance to pass this along. Dragonshorn Studios released a TEX (equation) editor addin for OneNote 2007. You can get it at http://dragonshorn.info/?page_id=372 I have not yet installed or played around with this yet, but it looks very interesting. Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms always welcome,John

Here is a test page I created to help explain some further testing around tagged notes. There are 5 items that need me to take action on them (4 exist only in OneNote and the 5th is linked to Outlook). One of my "action items" is important and has a star next to it to…

Every so often, I’ll get the same or very similar questions all at once. I’m not sure why this happens, but this last week I received several different variations of this type of request. "I wish there was a way to quickly mark and find all my To Do items." Well, there is, and I’ll…

Did you see Adapx updated their software 2.0 for the CapturX pen? You can finally print your own pages to use with their pen and then import the ink to Onenote. I’ve already tried this a little bit and it works pretty well. The pen has always worked with the physical notebook they give you…

Looks like Johan de Konig has written an addin to import ink from a Digital Notepad device from WALTOP. WALTOP makes a variety of digital surfaces (according to their website). You can read about the addin here: http://www.johandekoning.nl/index.php/2009/12/08/top2onenote-addin-making-my-digital-notepad-notes-searchable/. He goes through the code and how he developed the addin. It’s a great read to get…

Equation support has received some strong positive feedback so far – thanks! Testing it has been a blast and it has been great to see that folks like it. I’ve been writing about some of the aspects of testing it, and today I want to give quick synopsis of copying and pasting "math" around. To…

We’ve gotten a large amount of feedback on the ribbon in OneNote 2010 beta. The Ribbon is a shared component across Office and the owners wrote a good introduction on how to make the ribbon smaller and maximizing your page area. OneNote should start with the ribbon minimized for this reason and here is their…

I’ve mentioned several times that we use persona testing to help define scenarios for OneNote testing. As an example of how that changes the product, I can point to some new behavior with OneNote’s equation editing that changed between the Tech Preview release of OneNote and the Beta of OneNote 2010. Specifically, you can now…

Just wanted to make sure everyone saw this solution has been updated. Details at http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2009/11/27/onenote-print-driver-64-bit-xps2onenote-print-driver-updated.aspx Here’s a snippet: Fixes a number of issues some people had on Windows 7 64 bit. Enables the option to print to a single page, or print each page to a separate sub page (frequently requested). More easily enables scaling…

A few things came up over the weekend. We released the Beta version of Office 2010 and folks have started using OneNote! Be sure to send us your feedback, comments, bug reports and any other thoughts and questions you may have! Let’s take another look at testing equation support in OneNote. I received a few…